ON PALMOLITHIC EXPLORATION IN JERSEY. 233 
a source of a representative series of types. Very symmetrical ° points ’ 
adorned with the finest secondary chipping occurred to the number of 
several dozen. The largest measured 130x88 mm. Curiously 
enough, a small piece broken from the side of this specimen was 
recovered at a spot distant several yards away, though at the same 
level, the patina proving that the fracture was ancient. Some of the 
‘points’ were of the graceful elongated type that has been termed 
‘hemi-Solutrian.’ The most characteristic of these measured 
97x53 mm. It is to be noted that the implement from the lowest 
layer worked on both sides was of this shape, measuring 110 x 52 mm. 
It is made of a piece of flint of a ‘ knotty ’ kind which may well have 
invited additional trimming. Several cases of double patination occur, 
the most noticeable being that of a well-formed ‘ point’ measuring 
70x 50 mm., which, having first been blocked out in true Mousterian 
style, has afterwards had time to acquire a white patina (very similar 
to that characteristic of the Neolithic in Jersey, and thus possibly 
standing for some 5,000 years), and has been subsequently subjected 
to elaborate re-chipping along the edges. A ‘point’ beautifully 
worked in jasper, but, unfortunately, broken at the base, is something 
of a curiosity. For the rest, every known type of scraper abounds. 
Special notice may be taken of a frequent type in which the core has 
been utilised as a handle. A certain number of small pieces, the best 
examples measuring 50 x 22, 35 x 22, and 30x20 mm., bear a strong 
resemblance to arrow-heads, the more so as they have notched bases ; 
though to ascribe the bow to Mousterian times may be somewhat 
unorthodox. One specimen, again, is of that ‘ rostrocarinate ’ type of 
which so much has lately been heard. Apart from the worked flint, 
there is a very interesting series of utilised pebbles, every variety of 
hammer stone being found. It seems to have been customary with 
the inhabitants of this cave to split pebbles, especially those formed 
of diakase, and to use the longitudinal sections as scrapers or 
polissoirs. By good fortune it was possible to re-constitute such a 
pebble out of three portions found in different parts of the lowest bed, 
at some distance from each other. Occasionally pieces of stone other 
than flint had been trimmed into the rough semblance of ‘ points,’ 
the best example being of the hard sandstone (grés Armoricain) found 
in Alderney. A very interesting series has been provisionally con- 
structed of granite implements. These occurred in the heart of the 
bed of ashes, side by side with flint implements of similar form, under 
such conditions as almost certainly to exclude the possibility of their 
being accidental splinters from the roof. Certain bone fragments 
showed clearly the signs of having been cut with a flint knife, and it 
is possible that they will have to be ranked as implements, one of 
them, for instance, whether by accident or design, making a very 
convenient spatula. It only remains to add that everything that can 
possibly be of human workmanship, including all the inevitable 
débitage d’atelier, has been carefully preserved and stored by the 
kindness of the Société Jersiaise in a special room, where the student 
can work over the whole material at his leisure. with every chance of 
constructing a truly classical series. 
